By: Tarcisio Saurin Academic and industrial institutions*, three from Brazil and five from Norway have developed a collaborative project on resilience engineering and safety management in complex socio-technical systems. The project has been known as STERNA[1], named after a migratory…
Contribution from J. Paul Reed Presentation videos from this year’s REdeploy, a Resilience Engineering conference focused on the software development and operations industry, were recently posted. Held in San Francisco in mid-October, 2019 was REdeploy’s second year. Resilience Engineering Association member…
February 9, 2020. By Dr. Rob Robson, MDCM, MSc., FRCP(C)Healthcare System Safety and Accountability, Inc. www.robrobson.ca Let’s suppose for a moment that you are an “outdoors” type – into hiking, cycling, orienteering, and generally exploring the world. You decide you…
Operational Resilience in the US Virgin Islands, Naval Postgraduate School (NPS, Monterey, USA) Author: Daniel A. Eisenberg Is your community prepared to respond to a Category-5 hurricane? Does your community know how to backup electricity and water systems when power…
Author: Kristine Vedal Størkersen, NTNU Samfunnsforskning / NTNU Social Research Safety management regulation with functional rules and internal controls offer potential for practical procedures. It makes companies responsible for their own safety by implementing and internally controlling safety management systems,…
Contribution from David D. Woods: Matched pair of talks from a complexity workshop in August 2019 leading off with Dave Alderson on Organized Complexity followed by David Woods on Graceful Extensibility. Alderson’s talk really starts at 4:19 as he provides…
Edited by Paul Ward, Jan Maarten Schraagen, Julie Gore, and Emilie Roth Reviewed by Jan Maarten Schraagen The Oxford Handbook of Expertise provides a comprehensive picture of the field of Expertise Studies. It offers both traditional and contemporary perspectives, and…
Editors: Siri Wiig, Babette Fahlbruch (Eds.) Title: Exploring Resilience – A Scientific Journey from Practice to Theory Series: SpringerBriefs in Safety Management This book: Explores different approaches for operationalization of resilience across scientific disciplines and system levels Creates a theoretical…
by Ivonne Herrera Innovation management and resilience management are hyper-popular moving targets as contexts and organizational priorities change. I would like to share a study we conducted with Christina Hanssen addressing the question: we innovate, therefore are we resilient? When…